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  • City of Memphis

    Community turns raucous against xAI at public hearing

    Hundreds of people packed into Fairley High’s gymnasium in Whitehaven on Friday evening largely to vent their frustration about the artificial intelligence company’s use of natural gas turbines.

    By Samuel Hardiman April 28, 2025
  • Education

    Boys & Girls Clubs to close nine Memphis high school sites

    “Just because the club closed does not mean the need is gone,” Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Memphis CEO Gwendolyn Woods said. “We absolutely need Boys and Girls Clubs after-school programs inside of the schools.”

    By Jody Callahan April 25, 2025
  • Public Safety

    MPD chief: South Memphis shooting near high school was gang-related

    Both Memphis Police Department Chief C.J. Davis and Mayor Paul Young became emotional speaking about the violence in the city.

    By Samuel Hardiman April 25, 2025
  • Shelby County

    Veteran Criminal Court judge to retire

    The Shelby County Criminal Court Clerk’s Office announced Friday, April 25, Judge Paula Skahan will retire in June.

    By Aarron Fleming April 25, 2025
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    The Early Word: Ja’s fall takes us all down; plus, expert says xAI isn’t so bad

    MPD has eyes on Downtown, late-night Chinese food is coming and we meet the man behind Bartlett’s social media.

    By Bianca Phillips April 25, 2025
  • Premium Public Safety

    AI-powered cameras are monitoring Downtown

    Downtown Memphis’ 63 artificial-intelligence-powered traffic cameras monitor activity down to the types of vehicles that pass through its streets daily and how fast they are going. The city plans to add about 200 additional cameras.

    By Aarron Fleming April 25, 2025
  • Public Safety

    Two dead after shooting in South Memphis

    The scene of the shooting is one block away from two churches and a school.

    By Laura Testino, Aarron Fleming April 24, 2025
  • Premium City of Memphis

    Professor says xAI turbines don’t affect air quality if company’s claims are true

    Chunrong Jia, a professor in the University of Memphis’ division of epidemiology, biostatistics and environmental health, modeled the impact of what xAI’s turbines would have on air quality in Southwest Memphis.

    By Samuel Hardiman April 25, 2025
  • Premium The Early Word

    The Early Word: Grizzlies need us to believe, and Redbirds just need money

    MSCS board members could have terms cut in half, new jail may cost big bucks and MAS is bouncing back.

    By Bianca Phillips April 24, 2025
  • Premium City of Memphis

    City looks for money for AutoZone Park renovations

    With the Redbirds’ future at AutoZone Park potentially in question, the City of Memphis’ capital improvement budget contains at least one notable absence. 

    By Samuel Hardiman April 24, 2025
  • Public Safety

    Jury in Tyre Nichols trial to come from East Tennessee

    The jury in the state criminal trial for the three former Memphis police officers charged in the 2023 death of Tyre Nichols will come from Hamilton County in East Tennessee.

    By Aarron Fleming April 25, 2025
  • Memphis Grizzlies

    Ja Morant lawsuit dismissed

    A judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a teenager who accused the NBA All-Star of punching him during a pickup game in 2022.

    By The Associated Press April 23, 2025
  • Elections

    With only hundreds of votes cast, DeSoto Republicans secure victories

    Danny Klein gets the Republican nod in the Horn Lake mayor race after a runoff win Tuesday. Meanile, Lauren Leigh McLendon was elected Hernando alderman.

    By Brandon LaGrone II April 23, 2025
  • Premium City of Memphis

    New MAS board members hope their experience can help animal shelter

    City officials have appointed four new members to the newly reconstituted Memphis Animal Services advisory board, with more likely to follow. Now comes the hard work: improving the shelter and saving more animals.

    By Jody Callahan April 23, 2025
  • Education

    MSCS board members’ terms could be cut in half

    Under a new law, Shelby County Commissioners have the power to term limit Memphis-Shelby County Schools board members and could put all nine board seats on the ballot in 2026.

    By Laura Testino April 24, 2025
  • Education

    Trump-ousted National Endowment for Humanities head to talk at Rhodes

    Shelly Lowe, who was asked to step down as chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities by President Donald Trump in March, is giving a public lecture Thursday.

    By Jane Roberts April 23, 2025
  • Shelby County

    Sheriff’s Office pegs ‘worst case’ cost of new jail

    The multi-year dollar figure comes from the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office and would fundamentally alter the county’s annual capital budget now at $150 million a year for all capital projects. 

    By Bill Dries April 23, 2025
  • Premium Arlington

    Arlington superintendent lands new four-year contract

    After settling the district after the death of former Arlington Schools superintendent Jeff Mayo, Allison Clark has been rewarded with a four-year contract.

    By Michael Waddell April 23, 2025
  • Premium The Early Word

    The Early Word: MSCS takeover is dead for now, and some want xAI dead, too

    The Zoo wants more money, the Grizzlies lost again and “Sunday supper” comes to Cooper-Young.

    By Bianca Phillips April 23, 2025
  • Premium South Memphis

    Colossus: Can Memphis stop Elon Musk?

    To many, xAI is just another chapter in what residents said they think is a legacy of industrial racism and pollution. The debate centers on one central question: Is Colossus worth the cost?

    By Samuel Hardiman April 25, 2025
  • City of Memphis

    City Council takes another crack at ‘party houses’

    Council Chair Ford Canale and Council member Philip Spinosa are working on a proposal they hope will not draw the attention of Airbnb lobbyists in Nashville who undid some of the regulations council members put in place in 2016.

    By Bill Dries April 22, 2025
  • State Government

    MSCS avoids state takeover this year

    Disagreements about what kind of authority an appointed board should have over the Memphis school system stopped the bill from advancing before lawmakers adjourned for the year. 

    By Laura Testino, Benjamin Smith April 23, 2025
  • Premium High School Sports

    Varlas: Legislators have TSSAA in their crosshairs. And that’s not good.

    The state governing body for high school athletics is facing the possibility of a government takeover. Or outright dissolution.

    By John Varlas April 22, 2025
  • Premium State Government

    MSCS takeover details likely left to special committee

    A special committee of state lawmakers is expected to hammer out the details of a proposed takeover of Memphis-Shelby County Schools in a final push toward passing the legislation before the Tennessee General Assembly adjourns in the coming days.

    By Laura Testino, Benjamin Smith April 22, 2025
  • City of Memphis

    Memphis Zoo makes big plans as attendance dips

    Although the capital and operating funds are separate, the new capital projects are expected to push attendance up, which raises more money for the zoo to operate.

    By Bill Dries April 22, 2025

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